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A form of loss of freedom

PHILOSOPHY: According to Marx, alienation can occur when we work and produce things that do not correspond to our own identity. But what does Rahel Jaeggi write about this today?
Ali Jones Alkazemi -

End Times Thoughts

PHILOSOPHY: While postmodernism involved an explosion, today's posthumous condition, according to Marina Garcés, involves a liquidation of all possibilities – an implosion. Yes, are the hopes we cling to today just market-adapted needs for hope?
Henning Næs -

The Agamben and the Ethics of Abstinence

The community that is to come is a learned, rich, complex and sometimes obscure text. Here and there it borders on the mysticism: Agamben empties the ram of a patriarchal God Father with one hand and reintroduces with Spinoza all the divinity of things with the other, before drawing it all back into the profane, and then holding the "solution", a quivering aura, ahead of us.
Erland Kiøsterud -

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